> In data Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:18:54 +0200, hai scritto:
>
> > Yes, as winXP would crash with an old msvcrt.dll from win98!
> > And yes, some versions are backward compatible to previous versions.
>
> well, it's not the same i think.
> using the service_mgr i'm asking a remote server to perform a backup so if
> the communication protocol between 1.5 tools and 1.0 servers it's the same
> (or backward compatible) there should be no problem.
> I'm not mixing up dlls; every piece of software involved uses it's
> preferred dlls.
> Probably the protocol is not compatible but, if this is the case, i think
> that the 1.5 tool could perform a version check before melting
> the poor old
> server... and maybe there's an evident warning in some part of the docs
> that i've missed.
> ciao

It may be the gds32.dll client and not gbak. Why don;t you just grab a copy
of the old client and the old gbak and place them in a new directory, then
do the gbak from this directory.
Alan